Back to the Future 2: You're All Insane

[Anderson]

Agreed 100% here. Like I said, the wild finale of BttF2 is really, really well done. It's choreographed really well and is fairly entertaining. It kinda belongs in a different film...the rest (especially the future) is indefensible.

The future vision of 2019 is very much of its time. A brightly colored neon world of assholes. It was a partial slam on Universal and Disney. Buy up everything, make it unoffensive and repackage it for the masses.

Cafe 80s flew right past you, didn't it?

[FilmNerdJamie]

At the least two Bobs have always been upfront about never planning on trilogy like oh-so-many assholes claim "was the plan" including Lucas with the original trilogy.

[Matt]

Cafe 80s flew right past you, didn't it?

It was grating and unfunny. Having everything MaxHeadroomed wasn't quaint, it was annoying. Having Reagan and the Ayatollah get into a shouting match over the menu was the cinematic equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.

[Ed Hocken]

Wasn't that the point? It's why Marty ordered a Pepsi to shut them up.

[Abraham Smashington]

I just want a Pitbull™.

[Captain Russ]

[Anderson]

The point was that it was Gale and Zemeckis shitting on Disney (who bossed them around on Roger Rabbit) and Universal (who kept hounding them to make material that could produce rides for their new park).

They were shitting on how giant entities will commercialize everything and ruin the future. Hence, Jaws 19 in 3D. Hence, the overabundance of crap technology. Hence, hence, hence....

[Abraham Smashington]

Without part 2 we would never have gotten Biff's Pleasure Palace.

[B_Metal]

BUT MATT DIDN'T LIKE IT.

[Abraham Smashington]

I can't get upset about him hating it. Afterall, it's no Fifth Element.

[V]

it's no Fifth Element.

Few things are...

[Matt]

The point was that it was Gale and Zemeckis shitting on Disney (who bossed them around on Roger Rabbit) and Universal (who kept hounding them to make material that could produce rides for their new park).

They were shitting on how giant entities will commercialize everything and ruin the future. Hence, Jaws 19 in 3D. Hence, the overabundance of crap technology. Hence, hence, hence....

SATIRE!!! SATIRE!!!

Really, I GOT all that (even when I originally watched it). I just found that the satire of the issue was far more annoying than the actual issue itself. That's just me, though.

[FilmNerdJamie]

In Matt's defense, I have no doubt seeing Part II end like it did severely pissed people off. Hence the considerable drop in box-office between II and III (the latter still did good business though) and this was during an age with no Internet and shit like Entertainment Tonight and, to a lesser degree, Starlog was the best source of news for genre films.

[Matt]

I can't get upset about him hating it. Afterall, it's no Fifth Element.

thank God. I'd rather watch BttF2 than TFE any day.

[Abraham Smashington]

I saw it in the theater day one and fucking LOVED IT. Then when the trailer came up for part 3 people went apeshit.

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